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Hence the works of creation are a proper subject for our meditations on the Sabbath. p. 132, Para. 4, [HOLINESS]. But God's perfections are also seen in his law, his dealings with the children of men, and the plan of salvation, and these subjects should also occupy our minds on the holy Sabbath. Here is a vast field for our thoughts on the Sabbath. Let the mind expand on these subjects, and as light is received let it be reflected by the words and actions. p. 133, Para. 1, [HOLINESS]. It is not against the commandment to attend to the means of grace on the Sabbath. The object of the means of grace and the plan of salvation is to bring sinful, fallen man in obedience to the law of God, of which the Sabbath is a part. Of faith, which is one of the principal means of grace, Paul says, "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid; yea we establish the law. Rom. iii, 31, and Christ died "that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us." Rom. viii. 4. Therefore the more we understandingly attend to the means of grace, the more will we be disposed to keep the Sabbath and the rest of God's law. p. 133, Para. 2, [HOLINESS]. The work that is forbidden by the fourth commandment includes p. 133, Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. 1. Secular manual labor. The idea of worldly gain or any other consideration, should not tempt us to engage in this labor on the Sabbath. How easy it would be for the Lord to frustrate our plans, and make us lose more than we might gain by laboring with our hands. But though the Lord should suffer us to gain more in the way of sin, though we should spread ourselves here like the green bay tree, Ps. xxxiv, 35, yet the loss in the end would be far greater than all that could be gained by sinning. The wages of sin is death. Those who serve sin will surely have their wages -- death. p. 133, Para. 4, [HOLINESS]. Those who are liable to thus sin with their hands would do well to heed the following exhortation from James: "Cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purify your hearts ye doubleminded. * * * Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up." James iv, 8-10. p. 133, Para. 5, [HOLINESS]. 2. Traveling to or from worldly business on the sabbath.
This is a species of our own work, and should not be so much as named among us. We profess to have turned our feet from the Sabbath. Let us see to it that our practice agrees with our profession. p. 134, Para. 1, [HOLINESS]. 3. Speaking our own words. See Isa. 1vii, 13, This is also a part of our work; and how apt some are to speak on worldly subjects at home, with neighbors and strangers, and even with the brethren, on the Sabbath. The Sabbath is not a day in which we can talk about farms, butter, and cheese, and many other worldly things. Brethren and sisters, shall we honor God by not speaking our own words on his holy day? p. 134, Para. 2, [HOLINESS]. 4. Thinking on secular subjects. The Sabbath law regulates our minds as well as our bodies. Says Paul, "So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God." Rom. vii, 25. The law is spiritual, verse 14, reaching the spirit or mind, citing our thoughts, accusing our desires, and condemning our affections. Therefore the Sabbath is not a mere animal or bodily rest, as some have termed it. In order that we may keep it in the spirit and in the letter, we must not even think of doing our own work, or plan in reference to our worldly matters. There are as many ways of breaking the Sabbath with our minds as there are secular subjects on which the mind can dwell. p. 134, Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. But we must not be satisfied with the thought that we do not engage in servile work on the Sabbath. We should exert an influence to have those that are with us and under us keep the Sabbath. p. 134, Para. 4, [HOLINESS]. Parents should first feel for their children whom the Lord has in a special manner entrusted to their care. They should with patience and delight teach them the relations they sustain to their Creator, their parents, and their fellow-creatures, and with an even hand and parental authority enforce the observance of the Sabbath. p. 135, Para. 1, [HOLINESS]. Parents, watch the movings of the mind, and see to it that you make right impressions. Be sure that your principles are understood, and then enforce them with meekness and decision. Tell your children that it is because you love them, and would have them loved of the Lord, that you require this at their hand; that they depend upon you, and that the Lord requires them to honor you by obeying his
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into subjection to the will of God,
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Christ, let us go on to perfection;
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as holy, sanctified, perfect, and s
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When John the Baptist was preaching
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worship of the beast (papacy). By t
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Again, those parts which should be
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By it we appropriate to ourselves t
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can feast, and of which they can in
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future state given by Mahomet; also
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on just and reasonable motives, on
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in God's word? Consistent persons a
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doctrine. This was the case with an
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e dearer to us than life, and we sh
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works cannot be wrought and brought
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the senses; and Christians cannot k
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But we are to cleanse ourselves fro
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As God does nothing in vain, it is
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Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. The great apos
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the summer, and gathereth her food
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And first, the tongue is rightly us
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the world. p. 57, Para. 2, [HOLINES
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for this sin, and of the necessity
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employed in telling the truth. The
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